Tragedy and AfterMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 01/08/1984 - 234 páginas "Faas has written a provocative book, challenging the familiar literary and philosophical theories of tragedy from Aristotle onwards. His judicious use of nietzschean insights both stimulates and compels assent. Exuberant scholarship from first page to last." Irving Layton |
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... turn , " repudiation " rather than " death " is clearly the more appropriate term for describing these occurrences . Wherever we observe them , as in Ionesco's The Chairs , Shakespeare's King Lear , or Euripides ' Orestes , they seem to ...
... turn , " repudiation " rather than " death " is clearly the more appropriate term for describing these occurrences . Wherever we observe them , as in Ionesco's The Chairs , Shakespeare's King Lear , or Euripides ' Orestes , they seem to ...
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... turn , suffering and death are not shown to serve a teleological purpose in an historical or cosmic sense . Nor are they made to appear absurd . At best , the " decay of one life , " as Shakespeare's contemporary Montaigne put it , " is ...
... turn , suffering and death are not shown to serve a teleological purpose in an historical or cosmic sense . Nor are they made to appear absurd . At best , the " decay of one life , " as Shakespeare's contemporary Montaigne put it , " is ...
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... turn the Bhagavad Gîtā into a tragedy.18 Suffering alone , even if perpetrated in the most potentially tragic of situations , is not enough to warrant the designation . What does warrant it - and the Oresteia gives us one of the ...
... turn the Bhagavad Gîtā into a tragedy.18 Suffering alone , even if perpetrated in the most potentially tragic of situations , is not enough to warrant the designation . What does warrant it - and the Oresteia gives us one of the ...
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... Turning to the Oresteia , we find an almost diametrically opposed attitude towards suffering . Aeschylus seems to have little interest in man's subjective response to suffering or in psychology generally . What concerns him are all ...
... Turning to the Oresteia , we find an almost diametrically opposed attitude towards suffering . Aeschylus seems to have little interest in man's subjective response to suffering or in psychology generally . What concerns him are all ...
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... turn the conflict between two more or less equally justified positions into something closer to an ascendance of a new , desirable order of society over one which , now obsolete , has lost its justification before its disappearance ...
... turn the conflict between two more or less equally justified positions into something closer to an ascendance of a new , desirable order of society over one which , now obsolete , has lost its justification before its disappearance ...
Índice
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The Birth of Tragedy | 25 |
Towards Antitragedy | 42 |
Towards Posttragedy | 54 |
The Theoretical Background | 76 |
From Tragic to Antitragic Closure | 93 |
Hamlet or the SlaveMoralist Turned Ascetic Priest | 111 |
The Posttragic Vision of Romance | 129 |
From King Lear to The Two Noble Kinsmen | 141 |
Goethes Transcendence of Tragedy | 155 |
Tragedy and Psychology | 176 |
Conclusion | 189 |
NOTES | 192 |
INDEX | 216 |
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